JYX 2.0 at University of JyväskyläDSpace-julkaisuarkisto tallentaa, indeksoi, säilyttää ja levittää digitaalista tutkimusaineistoa.https://jyx.jyu.fi:4432019-03-21T17:43:34Z2019-03-21T17:43:34ZCareACT : internet-based intervention for enhancing the psychological well-being of elderly caregivers : a study protocol of a controlled trialLappalainen, PäiviPakkala, InkaNikander, Rikuhttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632432019-03-21T13:49:46Z2019-03-21T13:46:15ZCareACT : internet-based intervention for enhancing the psychological well-being of elderly caregivers : a study protocol of a controlled trial
Lappalainen, Päivi; Pakkala, Inka; Nikander, Riku
Background:
The rapid increase in the number of elderly family caregivers underlines the need for new support systems. Internet-delivered psychological interventions are a potential approach, as they are easy to access for family caregivers who are often homebound with their care recipient. This study examines the relative effectiveness of an internet-based acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) intervention or a standardized institutional rehabilitation program, first, in reducing depressive symptoms, and second, in improving the well-being and quality of life of elderly family caregivers compared to a control group receiving support from voluntary family caregiver associations.
Methods:
156 family caregivers aged 60 or more are studied in a quasi-experimental study design that compares three groups of family caregivers (Group 1; n = 65: a guided 12-week web-based intervention; Group 2, n = 52: a standardized institutional rehabilitation program in a rehabilitation center; Group 3, n = 39: support provided by voluntary caregiver associations). Data collection is performed at three time-points: pre-measurement and at 4 months and 10 months thereafter. Caregivers’ depressive symptoms as a primary outcome, and perceived burden, anxiety, quality of life, sense of coherence, psychological flexibility, thought suppression, and personality as secondary outcomes are measured using validated self-report questionnaires. Physical performance and user experiences are also investigated. Between-group differences in the effects of the interventions are examined using multiple-group modeling techniques, and effect-size calculations.
Discussion:
The study will compare the effectiveness of a novel web-based program in reducing depressive symptoms and improving the psychological well-being of elderly family caregivers, or a standardized institutional rehabilitation program representing usual care and a control group receiving support offered by voluntary caregiver associations. The results will expand the knowledge base of clinicians and provide evidence on effective strategies to improve the mental health and overall quality of life of elderly family caregivers.
2019-03-21T13:46:15ZHealth endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market : Evidence using genetic risk scores and reduced-form modelsPehkonen, JaakkoViinikainen, JuttaBöckerman, PetriPitkänen, NiinaLehtimäki, TerhoRaitakari, Ollihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632422019-03-21T13:37:47Z2019-03-21T13:33:17ZHealth endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market : Evidence using genetic risk scores and reduced-form models
Pehkonen, Jaakko; Viinikainen, Jutta; Böckerman, Petri; Pitkänen, Niina; Lehtimäki, Terho; Raitakari, Olli
This paper examines the relationship between health endowment and later-life outcomes in the labour market. The analysis is based on reduced-form models in which labour market outcomes are regressed on genetic variants related to the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. We use linked Finnish data that have many strengths. Genetic risk scores constitute exogenous measures for health endowment, and accurate administrative tax records on earnings, employment and social income transfers provide a comprehensive account of an individual’s long-term performance in the labour market. The results show that although the direction of an effect is generally consistent with theoretical reasoning, the effects of health endowment on outcomes are statistically weak, and the hypothesis of no effect can be rejected only in one case: genetic endowment related to obesity influences male earnings and employment in prime age. Due to the sample size (N = 1651), the results should be interpreted with caution and should be confirmed in larger samples and in other institutional settings.
2019-03-21T13:33:17ZTransnational Constructors of Parliamentary Democracy in Swedish and Finnish Constitutional Controversies, 1917–1919Ihalainen, Pasihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632412019-03-21T12:42:22Z2019-03-21T12:39:50ZTransnational Constructors of Parliamentary Democracy in Swedish and Finnish Constitutional Controversies, 1917–1919
Ihalainen, Pasi
During the First World War, the legitimacy of established polities was challenged everywhere in Europe. Not only the combatant great powers but also smaller states witnessed a resurgence of constitutional disputes and competing ideological conceptualizations of revolution and reform, the will of the people, democracy, and parliamentarism. While these controversies primarily focused on the future of the national polities concerned, historical experiences and discourses accelerated by the war and the Russian Revolution were transnationally interconnected and contributed to discursive transfers between political cultures. Swedish and Finnish socialists were linked by their internationals, liberals were connected by transnational debates for and against ‘Western’ democracy and parliamentarism, and conservative politicians and academics were involved in ideologically oriented networks. This article reconstructs transnational links and discourses in order to understand the exceptionally confrontational dynamics (which, in Finland, partly led to a civil war) and the outcomes of the Swedish and Finnish constitutional debates in 1917–1919. It examines the nature of the transnational connections of eight Swedish and Finnish conservatives, liberals, revisionist socialists, and far-Left socialists, analysing their argumentation on constitutional questions in published works and parliamentary speeches as illustrative examples of the political groups they represented.
2019-03-21T12:39:50ZA Metaphor for Identities in Transition through Urbanization and Globalization : Tofu and One Hundred SurnamesYang, Jinghttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632402019-03-21T12:28:37Z2019-03-21T12:20:33ZA Metaphor for Identities in Transition through Urbanization and Globalization : Tofu and One Hundred Surnames
Yang, Jing
The Chinese artist Chen Qiulin has been taking displacement and the resulting unrest in people’s identity as her persistent theme since the early 1990s. Focusing on a series of her works made since 2004 dealing explicitly with tofu and Chinese surnames, this paper examines her exploration of identities in transition in the context of China’s mass urbanization and globalization. By showing the artist’s conceptual evolution, her preference for materials and mediums, and her exhibition strategy, this paper explores two issues. First, it illuminates how the artist has transformed “tofu” and “surname” into a metaphor for the dilemma of identity under the urbanization in China. Second, it discusses how the artist has integrated her trans-cultural experience with Chinese migrant communities in Australia, to reflect the continuity and fluidity of cultural identity under global migration. The Tofu and One Hundred Surnames series provides a useful case study for examining the complexity of identity transition in Chinese contemporary art, which was previously not fully recognized.
2019-03-21T12:20:33ZAsymptotical convergence evaluation for a parabolic problem arising in circuit theoryMarinov, Corneliu A.Neittaanmäki, Pekkahttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632392019-03-20T13:08:47Z2019-03-20T12:51:00ZAsymptotical convergence evaluation for a parabolic problem arising in circuit theory
Marinov, Corneliu A.; Neittaanmäki, Pekka
2019-03-20T12:51:00ZLiikunta ja urheilu - sukupuoleen perustuva ja seksuaalinen häirintä : mitä siitä tiedetään tutkimuksen valossa?Kokkonen, Marjahttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632382019-03-20T12:26:54Z2019-03-20T12:24:37ZLiikunta ja urheilu - sukupuoleen perustuva ja seksuaalinen häirintä : mitä siitä tiedetään tutkimuksen valossa?
Kokkonen, Marja
Kansainvälisten tutkimusten pohjalta tiedämme,
että yleisesti ottaen naiset joutuvat miehiä enemmän
häirityiksi urheilu- ja liikuntasektorilla.
Tutkimukset ovat pääsääntöisesti kohdistuneet tyttöihin
ja naisiin. Ainoastaan muutamat tutkimukset ovat tarkastelleet
urheilua ja liikuntaa harrastavien miesten kokemuksia
seksuaalisesta häirinnästä.
Harrasteliikunnan ja kilpaurheilun puolella sukupuoleen
perustuvan ja seksuaalisen häirinnän tutkimus on
Suomessa vasta alkutaipaleella.
Sosiaalisessa mediassa urheilijoihin yhä enenevissä
määrin kohdistuva virtuaalinen seksuaalinen häirintä
on viime aikoina huolestuttanut tutkijoita.
2019-03-20T12:24:37ZNon-conventional synthesis and photophysical studies of platinum(II) complexes with methylene bridged 2,2′-dipyridylamine derivativesBulatov, EvgenyHaukka, Mattihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632372019-03-20T12:14:23Z2019-03-20T12:11:36ZNon-conventional synthesis and photophysical studies of platinum(II) complexes with methylene bridged 2,2′-dipyridylamine derivatives
Bulatov, Evgeny; Haukka, Matti
Methylene bridged 2,2′-dipyridylamine (dpa) derivatives and their metal complexes possess outstanding properties due to their inherent structural flexibility. Synthesis of such complexes typically involves derivatization of dpa followed by coordination on metals, and may not always be very efficient. In this work, an alternative synthetic approach, involving the derivatization step after – rather than prior to – coordination of dpa on metal center, is proposed and applied to synthesis of a number of platinum(II) complexes with substituted benzyldi(2-pyridyl)amines. Comparison with the more conventional synthetic route reveals greater efficiency and versatility of the proposed approach. The obtained complexes are not luminescent in solution at room temperature, but display blue phosphorescence emission (ca. 415 nm) with the lifetimes of μs order in glassy matrix at 77 K, with additional green (ca. 485 nm) and relatively long living (τ = 3.7 ms) emission in the case of iodine substituted derivative.
2019-03-20T12:11:36ZAutomatic Profiling of Open-Ended Survey Data on Medical Workplace TeachingSaarela, MirkaLahtonen, JukkaRuoranen, MinnaMäkeläinen, AnnikaAntikainen, TeuvoKärkkäinen, Tommihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632362019-03-20T12:08:42Z2019-03-20T12:06:52ZAutomatic Profiling of Open-Ended Survey Data on Medical Workplace Teaching
Saarela, Mirka; Lahtonen, Jukka; Ruoranen, Minna; Mäkeläinen, Annika; Antikainen, Teuvo; Kärkkäinen, Tommi
On-the-job medical training is known to be challenging due to the fast-paced environment and strong vocational profile. It relies on on-site supervisors, mainly doctors and nurses with long practical experience, who coach and teach their less experienced colleagues, such as residents and healthcare students. These supervisors receive pedagogical training to ensure that their guidance and teaching skills are constantly improved. The aim of such training is to develop participants’ patient, collegiate and student guidance skills in a multiprofessional environment, and to expand their understanding of guidance as part of their work as supervisors of healthcare professionals. In this paper, we investigate open-ended answers on guidance experience of 281 healthcare supervisors that participated in these training courses. To automate the analysis of the contents of the answers, we apply clustering to the natural language processed textual data. The results summarize the most common guidance experiences and allow an automatic grouping of the healthcare supervisors’ reflection. Such an evidence-based knowledge can be used to further improve the organization of the training courses.
2019-03-20T12:06:52ZMultigrid approach for molecular calculationsNeittaanmäki, PekkaSaarinen, K.https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632352019-03-20T12:03:05Z2019-03-20T11:48:09ZMultigrid approach for molecular calculations
Neittaanmäki, Pekka; Saarinen, K.
2019-03-20T11:48:09ZLongitudinal Associations of Fitness, Motor Competence, and Adiposity with CognitionHaapala, EeroLintu, NiinaVäistö, JuusoTompuri, TuomoSoininen, SonjaViitasalo, AnnaEloranta, Aino-MaijaVenäläinen, TaisaSääkslahti, ArjaLaitinen, TomiLakka, Timo A.https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/632342019-03-20T11:52:04Z2019-03-20T11:44:38ZLongitudinal Associations of Fitness, Motor Competence, and Adiposity with Cognition
Haapala, Eero; Lintu, Niina; Väistö, Juuso; Tompuri, Tuomo; Soininen, Sonja; Viitasalo, Anna; Eloranta, Aino-Maija; Venäläinen, Taisa; Sääkslahti, Arja; Laitinen, Tomi; Lakka, Timo A.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the longitudinal associations of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), motor competence (MC), and body fat percentage (BF%) with cognition in children.
Methods: Altogether, 371 children (188 boys and 183 girls) 6–9 yr of age at baseline participated in this 2-yr follow-up study. We assessed CRF by maximal cycle ergometer test, computed the MC score from the z-scores of the 50-m shuttle run, static balance, and box and block test results, measured BF% by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, and assessed cognition using the Raven’s Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM) score. The associations were studied by linear regression analysis and repeated-measures ANCOVA.
Results: In boys, a higher MC score (β = −0.161, 95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.314 to −0.009), a shorter 50-m shuttle run test duration (β = 0.152, 95% CI = 0.007–0.296), and a higher number of cubes moved in the Box and block test (β = −0.161, 95% CI = −0.309 to −0.013) at baseline were associated with a smaller increase in the RCPM score during follow-up. These associations were largely explained by the RCPM score at baseline. However, boys in the highest third (mean difference = 2.5, 95% CI for difference = 0.66–4.33) and the middle third (mean difference = 2.1, 95% CI for difference = 0.39–3.82) of the MC score at baseline had a higher RCPM score over the 2-yr follow-up than boys in the lowest third. CRF, MC, or adiposity was not associated with the RCPM score in girls. Changes in CRF, MC, or BF% were not associated with changes in cognition.
Conclusions: Higher MC at baseline predicted better cognition during the first two school years in boys but not in girls. CRF or adiposity was not associated with cognition in boys or girls.
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